Word: fates
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week there was a hot enough session of the British Parliament to make a foreigner suppose that the fate of the Empire depended on the vote. The debate was over London theatricals. Londoners can get theatrical war relief at four plays and six revues but, for centuries past, London's Sundays have been theaterless. The House of Commons squarely faced the issue of whether to allow bomb-harassed Londoners Sabbath dramatics...
When the portent of the impending life struggle between democracy and dictatorship first dawned upon our nonchalant minds, we "looked upon ourselves and cursed our fate" for having been born to bear the brunt of mistakes other than our own. But that has all changed. We now feel privileged to have been conceived in a period when we can not only watch, but take an integral part in, the awakening of a great democracy. Like the painful mass reactions of a newborn babe, the movements of our democracy are quick and wasteful, but we students are doing everything...
...waits on construction. At present, besides 1,600,000 tons on the ways and under contract, there are approximately 4,900,000 tons of ships to be built under President Roosevelt's emergency program. These are to be built in yards which are themselves still abuilding. The fate of the Empire hung upon the productive capacity of the U. S.-on its shipyards as much as on its aircraft factories, its gun and ammunition plants. The apocalyptic day seen by the U. S.'s late, great Rear Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan had dawned...
...Army was ready to fight for independence. General Dusan Simovitch, Chief of the Air Force, was one of these. But War Minister Pesitch was old and frightened; he would not give the order. On whether the Army obeyed its leaders, or revolted under its younger officers, depended the fate of the last and hardest neutral nut that Hitler has tried to crack with his pincers...
...defeated. The weak ones are crushed. But Asa's defeat is a victory, for it implies that under his apparent ineffectualness there is something stronger than his daughter's brittle bravery. Like the Greek dramatists, Novelist Glasgow believes that men's characters are men's fate, and that tragedy is never in defeat but in surrender. "An honorable end," she is fond of saying, "is the one thing that cannot be taken from...